Non-Farmers Pay Vast Share of Iowa Income Tax
Des Moines reports show farmers paid about 21 percent of Iowa's income tax while non-farmers bore roughly 79 percent. Data from 1935 to 1945 reveal farm cash income and non-farm earnings, with per capita figures highlighting disparities between farm and non-farm groups and warning that tax shares shift with economic cycles.
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Iowa
Des Moines
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Iowa Development Commission
Earle Spicer Opens Cornell Lecture Recital Series
Earle Spicer baritone will open Cornell college annual lecture recital series 1947 48 Thursday at 815 pm in King chapel. He performs English and American ballads Shakespeare settings and Gilbert and Sullivan with accompanist Miss Eleanor Gough Cedar Rapids. Gough will give a piano recital November 12. Other guests include Roland Hayes November 26 J W Buchta Minnesota University physicist on atomic energy January 20 Carl Weinrich February 13 John Erskine March 5 and Herbert Agar March 10.
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MT. Vernon
Cornell College
Earle Spicer
King Chapel
Spicer
Eleanor Gough
Cedar Rapids
Gough
Roland Hayes
J. W. Buchta
University of Minnesota
Carl Weinrich
Columbia University
John Erskine
Herbert Agar
U. S
Great Britain
One Killed Two Hurt In Highway Accident Bet tendorf
Bettendorf man is killed and two others are injured when their car hit a bridge abutment near Bettendorf four and a half miles east of town at 12 20 a m Monday. John Joseph McCoy Jr 26 presumed dead on Davenport ambulance arrival. John Seibel 24 driver suffers broken ribs and other injuries Henry Flieck 27 suffers head cuts and bruises Witnesses say Seibel lost control rounding a curve.
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Bettendorf
Here
Frank Keppy
John Joseph McCoy, Jr
Davenport
John Seibel
Henry Flieck
Seibel
Truck Fire Destroys Goods in Decorah Route
An Allied Van Lines truck in Decorah burned Sunday night destroying household goods en route from Chicago and Elmhurst to Rochester and Minneapolis. Driver Eugene Nichols of Chicago stopped near the fire station. firemen saved the truck but contents were ruined. Insurance valued at $10,000. Origin of the blaze undetermined.
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Decorah
Eugene Nichols
Chicago
Rochester
Minneapolis
Minn
Elmhurst
Ill
Nichols
Naval Reserve Radio Station to be Opened in Iowa City
A U S naval reserve radio station will be established in the University of Iowa engineering building. Commander C H Morgan will discuss the training plan at a Tuesday meeting. The 40 man unit will operate on navy frequencies as NSCFH with fixed and portable transmitters receivers a radar set and a radio direction finder. Enlistment is open to veterans with radio experience and Lt Comdr Alfred T Mitchell of Iowa City will command.
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Iowa City
INS
U. S. Naval Reserve
University of Iowa
C. H. Morgan
Newton
Naval Reserve
NSCFH
Naval
Ninth Naval District
Alfred T. Mitchell
Mystery Veils Death Of Des Moines Man
Des Moines police probe the death of Walter Trickey 65 found on a sidewalk with a skull fracture. He died after being hospitalized unable to regain consciousness. Coroner Shaw cites a fracture above the left ear and considers a blunt instrument or fall as causes while tavern-keepers in the area are questioned about a possible fight.
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Des Moines
Mns
Walter Trickey
Trickey
A. E. Shaw
Nail Shot Into Decorah Man's Brain
James Soukop, 28, of Decorah, in serious condition after a nail pierced his eye and penetrated his brain at the Aluminum Company of America plant near Bettendorf. The nail was discharged from a "Pempo" tool after he dropped it from a scaffold, the device firing when it struck the floor Saturday night.
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Davenport
James Soukop
Decorah
Soukop
Aluminum Company of America
Bettendorf
Solon Seeks Yearlong Food Sales Tax Moratorium
Iowa representative W C Hendrix calls for a one year halt on sales taxes for food to accompany a proposed 50 percent cut in the state income tax. He argues rising state revenue and food prices burden families, noting milk and bread once tax free now taxed at six percent. Hendrix supported restoring the income tax to full rate earlier this year.
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General Assembly
Iowa
Hendrix
Aliba man electrocuted while working on power line
REINBECK AP James Ed win Bates 35 of Albia a World War II veteran was killed by electricity while a crew replaced poles on an REA line five miles northwest of here The Hoak Construction Company of Grundy Center employed him Coroner Lou Coffman said Bates had his hands on a pole being steadied by a derrick when the pole touched a high tension line the current killed him instantly.
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Reinbeck
James Edwin Bates
Albia
Here
Grundy County
Lou Coffman
Bates
Hoak Construction Company
Grundy Center
Coffman
Time Limit on NROTC Enrollment at Ames
Captain Levin announced five days remain for Iowa high school seniors and graduates to apply for the Navy's college training program at Iowa State. A competitive exam is set for December 13, 1947, with 2,500 men to begin Navy college training in fall 1948. Applications must reach the College Entrance Examination Board in Princeton by November 10. The program provides a four year navy funded education and a commission after graduation.
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Ames
R. B. Levin
Naval Science and Tactics
Iowa State College
Iowa
Navy
Naval Examining Section
College Entrance Examination Board
Princeton
N. J
Marine Corps
Readjustment Pay Ends for 5,930 Vets
Iowa World War II veterans drew the full readjustment allowance, with 4,172 self employed and 1,758 unemployed. Unemployed veterans could receive up to 20 dollars a week, based on service time, with a maximum 52 weeks. Since 1944, unemployed veterans have received 21,875,663 dollars and self-employed 14,065,819 dollars. In two years, 92,257 claims were filed, though not all received checks as some found work.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Employment Security Commission
Unemployment claims data under self employment program
There were 16 143 claims filed under the self employment program. Only 1.9 percent of the unemployed filing claims have exhausted the amount to which they are entitled. Of the self employed filing claims, 25.8 percent have used up their full amounts.
Father and Daughter Killed in Collision in Dow City
Two persons died and two others injured in a Sunday night auto-truck crash in Dow City. Frank Riley, 44, and his daughter Frances, 18, were killed. Riley’s wife and another daughter Patsy, 12, were slightly hurt. Riley’s car collided with a semi-trailer driven by Perry Skiles of Akron Colorado at the Mail street and highway 30 intersection. The truck owner is Zur cher Truck Lines. Skiles escaped injury.
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Dow City
INS
Frank Riley
Frances
Riley
Patsy
Mail Street
Highway 30
Perry Skiles
Akron
Colo
Zurcher Truck Lines
Over
Skiles
Babcock To Speak at Marengo Radio Party
Wayne Babcock chief engineer for The Gazette stations KCRG and KCRK will speak at an FM sneak preview party Tuesday night at the Eby residence Marengo Invitations issued by The Deck Moray Eby Miss Edna Herbst KCRG KCRK promotion director will also attend the event.
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Gazette
Marengo
Wayne Babcock
The
KCRG
KCRK
Eby
Deck
Moray Eby
Edna Herbst
Kcrgkcrk
Why A A Works Told by Speaker
A Chicago newspaperman told the Iowa convention of Alcoholics Anonymous in Des Moines that God is a vital partner in every drunkard’s climb back to respectable living. He said acknowledgment of powerlessness, humbling surrender to God, and turning weakness into strength drive recovery. The talk closed a two day celebration marking four years of Iowa AA, now with over 2,000 members. A Midwest convention is planned in Des Moines next year.
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Des Moines
Chicago
Iowa
Alcoholics Anonymous
Midwest
Body Found on Highway 18 Near Charles City
Authorities seek to identify a man found Saturday night on highway 18 two miles west of Charles City. Sheriff B F Atherton says the man likely was struck by a car.
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Charles City
INS
Highway 18
Here
B. F. Atherton
Davenport Man Dead in Police Station Cell
Clarence G. Pierce aged 59 of Davenport was found dead in a police station cell on Sunday. Coroner Frank Keppy rules heart attack as the cause. Pierce had been found lying in the street Saturday night.
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Davenport
INS
Clarence G. Pierce
Frank Keppy
Pierce
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